CC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Alasdair Macintyre

• School: Emerson College
• Department: Communication Studies (CC)
• Course: CC100
• Professor: burnham

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Refers to the facts, statistics, testimony, examples, and stories that bolster your claims. The key to understanding what kind of supporting material is appropriate for a speech is knowing the context aka contextual reasoning. Concerns thinking about the kinds of support you can use for a speech given its contextual demands and constraints. Do not simply concern how you order your main points or avoid contradictions; it is also a matter of choosing support that is appropriate for the occasion. Verifiable truths or information that is independent of opinion. Quantitative measures of the amount, size, or number of something. Numerical facts or measurements about a large group or collection. The sharing of viewpoints, perspectives, or opinions of individuals. Opinions are judgements that may or may not depend on facts or knowledge. As a speaker, you tacitly present yourself as an expert on the topic you are discussing.